St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-11
A DAY OF HORROR.
Continued From First Page.

under dog and greatly Wronged Dy Capt.
tai, the best way for them TO serve their
cause is by obedience on this occasion
at all events to the behestS of the law.
Every possible precautiOn will be taken
to compel this condition of affairs and
it will rebound very greatly to the credit
of the slang wang takers on the lake
front if their brains suggest this course
to their ordinarily active tongues and
somewhat overfree bearing in the pres
ence of their fellow citizens.
The talk about the great labor de-
monstratiOn tomorrow was boSh. Every
one, so far as l can see and judge, or
infer, is impressed with a sense of the
SOlemnity of the Occasion
and the duty of the hour. There is
great deal of human nature in people
out in this part of the world, and L find
Thomas, Richard and Henry are just as
anxious to see that spectacle as Tom,
Dick and Harry. aud just as anxious
here as they have always been in New
York, and in every other place oc-
cupied by civilized man. Gov.
Oglesby, of Springfield, and
Sheriff MatsOn-whose name by
the way is Canute-rather significant
lust now, as he has it on his outer door,
beyond which no man can 90, recalling
the absurd physical demonstration of
the old-time King Canute in the pres
ence of the all-cOnquering waves-in
Chicago have for the past week sus-
tanned a burden of popular pressure
that cannot we'll be exaggerated or over
estimated in report Oglesby, on the
one hand, has been badgered and
hustled and everything but hustled by
the friends of the anarchists, while the
sheriff has been bOmbarded in his home
and forced into the very interior sane
tum of his office by multitudinous
array of men from all sections of the
country, from all grades of life, and in
every possible occupation, clamoring
for tickets to the jail tomorrow morn
ing. Many men have an idea that an
execution is a most impressive affair.
On the contrary, it is a very tame and
common incident to civilized society.
So long as the condemned stands with
face uncovered it is indeed a solemn
occasion-One calculated to stir the
kindlieSt feelings in every observers
heart-but when
The Black Cap Is Drawn
and the face is concealed it is impossible
to consider from any point of view, the
figure standing, or the figure when lifted
high in the air, as that of the human
being. That, by the way, is very re-
markable physicologic fact. In order
to appreciate the humanity of the man
about to suffer. it is absolutely essential
that you should see his face. The only
striking part of the forthcoming will be
its numerical quantity and obviously no
great number of witnesses can be
present The jail yard is very small.
The scaffold will be twice the size of an
ordinary instrument, and the attend
ance will be more numerous, so that
there will not be room for even the Ordi-
nary customary number of spectators.
The sheriff. | think, has made very judi
ciOus arrangements. He has issued
passes, first to twelve men known as the
sherlff'S jury, who are to act III that
capacity as a kind of cOroneriStic body
to certify to the legal death of the con-
demned; also to the lawyers in the case,
who, it is not probable, will care
personally to use them, and
they are not transferable; to
one representative from each Chicago
newspaper; to one representative from
each significant paper in the large
cities, ten, believe in the ten large
cities, and two, / understand, to clergy
men. By the way, that clergyman
factor is rather interesting. The men
condemned are agnOstics, as [ un-
derstand it. They do not deny the eX-
istence of God; they simply don't
know anything about it, in which par
tieular they differ chiefly from the rest
of US, in saying they don't know any
thing about it, while others who do not
know anything more about it than they
do pretend to know great deal. Clergy
men were in the jail to-day and were
permitted to talk to the anarchists, who
listened to them respectfully. Fielder
confesses to some religious ideas, but
he and his ideas will remain on earth
for some time to come, so it makes very
little difference.
A Clergyman
by the name of Bolten, talked with him,
and also with Schwab and Spies. He
was there, perhaps, three quarters of an
hour. Schwab has an IDEA that there is
no God, while Spies, who has made
somewhat theatric tender, unnecessary
to AZ, ~ af =
vicariOuS offering in the interest of the
others, thinks that when we die we be-
come component parts of nature, and
that is all there is about it. Lingg, l
remember, said some little time ago to
his faithful friend, Osborne: II am an
anarchist,a socialist and a revolutiOniSt.
There is no future. l will not Sign.'
Still these ministers are doing what
they think they ought to, suppose, and
the condemned are acting simply like
men of the world, who do not care to be
rude with people of their profession.
In view of the crowded condition
of this city, and further
in view of the reported coming
tomorrow of thousands of people from
all over the state, the best news to be
sent out tonight is concerning that bO-
gusly alluded-tO labor demonstration of
tomorrow. 1t is fact that the execu-
tive committee of the Central Labor
union have advised the members of the
union to
Abstain From Work
tomorrow, but they say expressly that
that action was taken as mark of re-
spect to these unfortunate men, an as
sertiOn which the advice given by the
Arbeiter Zeitung, alluded to above,
abundantly Endorsed. Nevertheless,
the authorities, national, state and city,
have made widespread and judiciously
arranged preparations. Gen. Terry de-
clineS to talk about his arrangements,